@article{ref1,
title="What makes for a successful sociology? A response to "Against a descriptive turn"",
journal="British journal of sociology",
year="2020",
author="Savage, Mike",
volume="71",
number="1",
pages="19-27",
abstract="This paper responds to Nick Gane's ?Against a descriptive turn?. I argue that descriptive research strategies are more open and inclusive than those which purport to be causal  where explanatory adequacy is assessed by expert insiders. I also show how open descriptive strategies can assist a wider explanatory purpose when these are conceived in non-positivist ways. I argue that epochalist sociology lacks an adequate temporal ontology because it collapses descriptive specificity back into overarching epoch descriptions. Finally, I argue that if the entire range of publications associated with the Great British Class Survey are considered, that it has demonstrated  a productive way of recognising  the significance of class which has facilitated major research advances in its wake.<p />",
language="en",
issn="0007-1315",
doi="10.1111/1468-4446.12713",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12713"
}